Cocktails with Bianco vermouth
Bianco vermouth is a pale, semi-sweet aromatized fortified wine flavored with wormwood and other botanicals.
ABV15–16%
Substitutes for Bianco vermouth
Another bianco or blanc vermouth swaps in one for one, though sweetness varies by brand. Lillet Blanc works one for one; the drink comes out drier and fruitier, with a light quinine edge. Dry vermouth with a scant barspoon of 2:1 syrup per 25 ml brings the sugar back but not bianco's vanilla note. Rosso vermouth matches the sweetness but darkens the drink and adds a darker, spicier note.
Under EU rules a vermouth labeled dry has under 50 g of sugar per liter; bianco bottlings run about 130–170 g.
About as sweet as bianco, around 150 g per liter for Martini Rosso, but colored red-brown with caramel.
On the label
- “vermouth”
- A legal category, not a style word. At least 75% of the bottle must be wine, it has to be flavored with at least one Artemisia — wormwood — herb, and it must sit between 14.5% and 22% ABV. Drop the wormwood and it is an aromatized wine, not a vermouth.
